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Snowblooded
by Emma Sterner-Radley
3.5 Stars
I've greatly enjoyed Emma Sterner-Radley's Mapmaking Magicians series, so I was very excited to see another adventure book by her. I will admit that I wish I had read the limited reviews that were avaiable when I picked this up. I am a mood reader, and knowing in advanced and preparing can be essential to my enjoyment.
This book follows Valour and Petrichor, trained assassins working for the local govenment to dispatch of unrurly individuals. Valour and Petrichor are some of the best assassins and have been given a job to kill the elusive drug kingpin, Brandquist. Valour and Petrichor spends the first part of their mission not wanting to work together but then reluctantly find themselves working well. To Valours delight and Petrichors dismay, they are jooined by Ingrid, a local heiress seeking adventure.
The story was exciting, with some mystery, action, and plenty of banter between the characters. What I wish I had paid attention to in the reviews is that this world is grim. It takes place in Sweden and is in small provadence that is surviving heavily from improvish conditions. The characters, while affective at their jobs and surviving in it, still feel broken.Beacuse of this, t took me some time to get into the book. The unhappy setting and characters who who are aware of the condition of the world but not having a way to effect it, was hard to get into , in my current mood. But once the characters started working together and the mystery started to show itself, did I really get into it.
The book was well written and the charqacters had wonderful depths. I'm not certain but I am pretty sure this would be a historical fiction book, despite thinking it was a fantasy book like the Mapmaking Magicians books.
I am really glad I picked this up and would recommend this for fans of darker historical advnture stories.
Thank you to the author and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I've greatly enjoyed Emma Sterner-Radley's Mapmaking Magicians series, so I was very excited to see another adventure book by her. I will admit that I wish I had read the limited reviews that were avaiable when I picked this up. I am a mood reader, and knowing in advanced and preparing can be essential to my enjoyment.
This book follows Valour and Petrichor, trained assassins working for the local govenment to dispatch of unrurly individuals. Valour and Petrichor are some of the best assassins and have been given a job to kill the elusive drug kingpin, Brandquist. Valour and Petrichor spends the first part of their mission not wanting to work together but then reluctantly find themselves working well. To Valours delight and Petrichors dismay, they are jooined by Ingrid, a local heiress seeking adventure.
The story was exciting, with some mystery, action, and plenty of banter between the characters. What I wish I had paid attention to in the reviews is that this world is grim. It takes place in Sweden and is in small provadence that is surviving heavily from improvish conditions. The characters, while affective at their jobs and surviving in it, still feel broken.Beacuse of this, t took me some time to get into the book. The unhappy setting and characters who who are aware of the condition of the world but not having a way to effect it, was hard to get into , in my current mood. But once the characters started working together and the mystery started to show itself, did I really get into it.
The book was well written and the charqacters had wonderful depths. I'm not certain but I am pretty sure this would be a historical fiction book, despite thinking it was a fantasy book like the Mapmaking Magicians books.
I am really glad I picked this up and would recommend this for fans of darker historical advnture stories.
Thank you to the author and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.